Gold News of the Week
The gold received per escort from the Western Diggings, on Thursday, shows an increase in the previous week's receipts of about 350 ounces. This fact is most encouraging, as showing an…
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The Gold License Fee in Victoria
THE wisdom of the course adopted by our Government in refusing to abolish the gold license fee, under the threat that the neighbouring colony of Victoria was…
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ADVICES from Braidwood show an improvement in this quarter, which is highly satisfactory. About 500 licenses were issued for the month of November, and the ordinary earnings per man are estimated at from 15s. to…
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The discoveries of gold in California and Australia gave rise to a great many theories among, commercial men, as to their probable effects upon the prices of all commodities, and upon all…
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At Mount Alexander, Campbell's Flat, has been worked with very moderate success. One or two instances are recorded of heavy "finds," but the rushes in this locality are over. At Barker's Creek some few are doing well. At Adelaide and…
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Nov. 21.—Between 500 and 600 licenses have been issued this month, a large proportion of which, viz. : 227 are taken put on private property at Major's Creek and Honeysuckle Flat. We…
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The very favorable accounts which have reached here from Burandong, through the medium of the FREE PRESS and private sources, combined with the recent heavy, rains and consequent floods in the river, have been the means of attracting a great…
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On Sunday evening the gold escort from the northern diggings arrived at Maitland from Tamworth, on its way to Sydney. The quantity brought was 1073 ounces' [?] dw't. 12 grs. of gold…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gold Cup Presented to C. G. Plunkett, Esq
This beautiful specimen of colonial workmanship is the manufacture of Mr. Alfred Lorking, of the Goldsmiths' Hall, George-street. The cup weighs thirty ounces, and stands about eleven inches high; it is surmounted by a statuette, emblematical of…
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Correspondents in the Maitland Mercury of Saturday, communicate the following intelligence. THE HANGING ROCK…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Scraps From the Victoria Mines. (From our own Correspondent.) Bendigo, November 30
THE head-strongly foolish po icy of the Government of Victoria has caused a reaction against their new measure in reference to the licensetax. The manner in which the Government has…
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Letter from Mr. Commissioner Durbin to the Chief Commissioner of Crown Lands. Crown Lands Office, Liverpool Plains, 11th November,1853…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Supply of Gold. the Decrease of Bullion, and the Money Market. (From the Economist, August 13.)
The continued large decrease of bullion week after week, notwithstanding the extensive import of gold and silver, is a feature in our monetary affairs which well deserves the attention of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Dark Side of the Question for the Gold Seekers. (From the Times, August 23.)
It is the ever repeated wonder of historians where the wretches come from that suddenly appear in times of revolution and [?]umult. They must spring out of the earth; thoy must be born…
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WE have before as an important letter from J. H. Durbin, Esq., Commissioner for Crown Lands in the Northern District, on the progress of the works for carrying water from the creeks about Hanging Rock to various…
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The head-strong foolish policy of the Government of Victoria has caused a reaction against this new measure in reference to the license-tax. The manner in which the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Diggings. the Northern Gold Fields. the Hanging Rock. Hanging Rock, Dec. 3rd
Since my last communication we have been deluged with rain. All mining operations have been at a stand still, and consequently all parties have been alike sufferers. Thunder and lightning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Scraps From the Victoria Gold Fields. (From our own Correspondent.) Bendigo, December 8, 1853
THE grand initiation of the second agitation against the license tax, and for enfranchising the go[?]d diggers, took place on Saturday. The locale was in the rear of the Digger's Advocate…
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We have before us an important letter from J. H. Durbin, Esq., Commissioner for Crown Lands in the Northern District, on the progress of the works for carrying water from the creeks about Hanging Rock to various…
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THE following is a list of the consignors of the gold transmitted to London by the Talavera, Captain Scott:— O zs. dwts. grs…
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